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    raincoaster: Dylan, not if your servers go down again. more »
    twig: The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental ... more »
    Drunken Economist: Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea? Corps and end users really don't care where the... more »
    scroll_lock: I had no idea this existed. Now I'm newly obsessed. more »
    daveyjonesisdead: apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies... more »
    DTurkin: Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collab... more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS. more »
    Foster Kamer: #Yes. But also, I kind of do want to mail April Winchell a check. Regretsy is awesome. #ThingsWeActuallyLike #BookDealsWeCanGetBehind more »
    Tremonius: If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsof... more »
    BlinkyMcChuck: God, this is horrible. I loved her work. more »
    yourfriendandneighbor: also, can't depression be hereditary? like any other disease? maybe it's predominant in asians? or in some ethnicities. more »
    iplaudius: This is awful. Not only was she an extremely beautiful woman, but she was smart, funny, creative, and inspiring to so many people. I hope her blog sta... more »
    skt.smth: I think a lot of the reason why people end up committing suicide in East Asia (particularly Japan and Korea) is because depression, eating disorders, ... more »
    DaeSu: Roh M00-hyun was South Korea's former president, not prime minister more »
    adiam7: This is tragic, I wonder if the suicide rates among young people has also spiked more »
  • #facebookdeath

    Aspiring Male Model Left Suicide Note on Facebook

    "Facebook suicide" used to mean leaving the ubiquitous social network for the real world. But Paul Zolezzi, an aspiring Brooklyn model, used Mark Zuckerberg's creation to announce the end of his actual life. More »
  • #deathcasting

    Suicide by webcam

    Lifecasting, a kind of do-it-yourself reality TV broadcast on the Internet, has thousands of practitioners. Until last night, one of them was Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida resident, who used a webcam to broadcast his death, too. More »
  • #overhyped

    Twitter sort of not really saves man from suicide